Tag Archives: Musa Ecweru

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Flood victims in Pabo sub county in Amuru district are yet to receive relief aid three months after being displaced. In July, 563 households were affected by hailstorms in Pukwany village Pabo sub county. The floods also destroyed more than 700 acres of crop …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Musa Ecweru recommended the replacement of Charles Bafaki, the head of the Development Response to Displacement Impact Project –DRDIP in the Office of the Prime Minister-OPM in 2019 citing a tainted image, URN has learnt. …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Kasese District has received relief items from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for distribution to persons affected by floods that devastated the area during the week.   More than 120,000 people mainly from Karusandara sub-county and Bulembia-Kilembe Division were displaced and their crop gardens …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The government will review the prices of food relief supplied to people affected by the covid-19 lockdown.  Musa Ecweru, the Minister of State for State for Relief and Disaster Preparedness, the government will no longer accept exorbitant prices of food from the suppliers.   The decision …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 25,000 people in the districts of Kampala and Wakiso have received relief food from the government over the last three days. The food was given out as one of the interventions to support families whose livelihood was disrupted by measures to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of Uganda has announced today that the country will no longer welcome new refugees and asylum seekers. The move is in response to a presidential directive to close all borders as a measure initially to prevent but now to slow the spread …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Peter Iloot Otai, the former Minister of State for Defense in Milton Obote’s government will be accorded an official burial. Otai, 79, died in London on of January 2nd. He has been in exile since 1980’s when the National Resistance Army, NRA took overpower. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Survivors of the Bududa landslides have faulted government for failing to fulfill its pledge. Last year, landslides hit the villages of Namposhi, Namasa and Shihururwe in Bushika sub county leaving many people dead and several others displaced. The State Minister of Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Government has admitted the delayed relocation of the people from disaster prone areas in Bududa district. The Disaster Preparedness Minister, Musa Ecweru told residents of Napsohi village in Bushika sub county in Bududa district on Monday that government has received information that people in …

Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The number of bodies of the Bududa landslides victims recovered has now reached 12.  This follows the recovery of 3 more bodies on Monday using an excavator following landslides that hit Naposhi and Namasa in Bushika Sub County on Tuesday last week. More than 30 …